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Company description
WATSON FARLEY & WILLIAMS LLP is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Limited Liability Partnership”. Incorporated on 17 March 2005; registered for 21 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 procurement records.
This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- WATSON FARLEY & WILLIAMS LLP
- Company number
- OC312252
- Company type
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 April 2025Next accounts due
31 January 2027Last statement made up to
17 March 2026Next statement due
31 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 68.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 49.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 56.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 58.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 56.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 49.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 70.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 72.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49920.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49938.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49928.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49926.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49936.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49934.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49936.4% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
WATSON FARLEY & WILLIAMS LLP
LEI 213800PNTD9QRD7A7N56 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- Z0EY
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 16 March 2005
- Initial LEI registration
- 23 November 2017
- LEI last updated
- 26 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 9 August 2027
- Managing LOU
- 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29
- Other legal names
- WATSON, FARLEY & WILLIAMS LLP
- Legal address
- 15 APPOLD STREET, LONDON, EC2A 2HB, GB
- Headquarters address
- 15 APPOLD STREET, LONDON, EC2A 2HB, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- WATSON FARLEY & WILLIAMS LLP
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- WFW GLOBAL LLP
- Statement period
- 30 April 2019 – 30 April 2020
- Approved
- 25 August 2020
- Sectors
- Professional and administrative services and supplies, including legal, consulting and accounting services
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 6 April 2021
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
prepayment and security release of up to fourteen (14) Airbus A320 family aircraft (IP25102023007)
UK EXPORT FINANCE · ocds-b5fd17-0097a6f4-bcd1-4e50-a967-f2161126b490
- Supplier named in award
- Watson Farley & Williams LLP
- Award value
- £500,000
- Contract period
- 23 October 2023 – 22 October 2025
- Published
- 25 October 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79111000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-0097a6f4-bcd1-4e50-a967-f2161126b490-2023-10-25T12:18:13+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
General Aerospace Legal Panel Framework
UK Export Finance · updated 2 July 2026
- Tender value
- £25,000,000
- Awards
- 1
LBLA Legal Services Framework
London Borough of Haringey · updated 14 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 5
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
No SIC code was supplied in this bulk record.
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
2 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Registered-office postcode: EC2A 2HB → EC2R 6AY
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: WATSON, FARLEY & WILLIAMS LLP
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.